Aetna Inc. and CVS Health Corp. announced the $69 billion CVS agreement to acquire Aetna at what might have been the worst possible time for health insurance agents and brokers: as producers were racing to help older clients meet the Dec. 7 Medicare plan annual election period deadline.
Producers are also in the middle of helping employer clients with calendar-year plans nail down 2018 benefit plan enrollment, and, in some cases, doing whatever it is they still have the heart to do for consumers trying to get individual major medical enrollment period.
But Aetna has made some efforts to communicate with producers about the CVS deal.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
